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Geena Davis

October 2023

  • Susan Sarandon in The Hunger

    Ranked
    Susan Sarandon’s 20 best performances – ranked!

    She may, by her own admission, have played ‘a lot of mothers’, but as the actor turns 77, we celebrate more memorable roles, from maverick lawyers and grown-up groupies to campaigning nuns and supernatural cellists

May 2023

  • Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise.

    Thelma and Louise review – punchier, bolder, hotter and sweatier than ever

    Callie Khouri’s feminist crime classic is a masterclass in narrative and character development and director Ridley Scott delivers pure action brio

November 2022

  • High achiever: Davis after winning the Oscar for best supporting actress for The Accidental Tourist in 1989.

    Book of the day
    Dying of Politeness review – Geena Davis’s journey to ‘badassery’

    The Thelma & Louise star bewails the treatment of women in the film industry in a conversational and often humorous account of her career

March 2022

  • Home run … from left, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own, 1992, back in cinemas this month.

    A League of Their Own review – feelgood baseball drama still knocks it out the park

    Sprinkled with Tom Hanks stardust, and Geena Davis leading the line, this heartwarming tale of a women’s wartime baseball league stands the test of time

June 2021

  • Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson in The Long Kiss Goodnight

    Stream team
    The Long Kiss Goodnight: a masterful performance from Geena Davis obliterates nonsensical plot

    Samuel L Jackson’s low-rent private eye pairs up with Davis’s schoolteacher when her former assassin identity starts violently reemerging in this 90s action thriller

May 2021

  • THELMA &amp; LOUISE<br>GEENA DAVIS &amp; SUSAN SARANDON Character(s): Thelma &amp; Louise Film 'THELMA &amp; LOUISE; THELMA AND LOUISE' (1991) Directed By RIDLEY SCOTT 24 May 1991 CTC7172 Allstar Collection/METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 0709z@yx

    Thelma & Louise at 30: a groundbreaking road movie that still strikes a nerve

    Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as female outlaws trapped in a patriarchal world in a film that remains a biting outlier

August 2020

  • Geena Davis

    The G2 interview
    Geena Davis: ‘As soon as I hit 40, I fell off the cliff. I really did’

    The Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own star wanted to be an actor from the age of three. She discusses sexual harassment, improving representation, and why she’s so glad she had kids in her 40s

October 2019

  • Geena Davis speaking at The Power of Inclusion Summit 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand.

    Geena Davis announces 'Spellcheck for Bias' tool to redress gender imbalance in movies

  • Actor Geena Davis during the 45th Deauville American Film Festival on 10 September 2019 in Deauville, France. She wears a pin saying "50/50".

    Geena Davis: damaging stereotypes on screen limit women's aspirations

August 2019

  • Alison Brie, left, in series three of GLOW on Netflix.

    GLOW season three review – gleeful, outrageous and dialling up the camp

    There’s more off-mat drama and Geena Davis as an ex-showgirl to prove that the ladies of wrestling still light up a room – and our hearts

September 2018

  • ENTERTAINMENT-CANADA-FILM-CINEMA FESTIVAL<br>Actress Geena Davis speaks during the “Share Her Journey,” a rally for women in film, at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on September 8, 2018. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP)GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images

    Geena Davis joins women in film to give Toronto a reality check

    Thelma and Louise star was among the actors and directors who shared tactics at the Toronto film festival for overcoming gender inequality

December 2017

  • Director Paul Feig and actor Geena Davis

    Let's talk: a conversation special
    Geena Davis meets Paul Feig: ‘I had an audition cancelled when I wouldn’t have dinner with the producer’

    The actor and the director discuss Hollywood, harassment and gender bias

November 2017

  • This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Jon Hamm in a scene from, “Marjorie Prime,” a film by Michael Almereyda. The film is an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (Sean Price Williams/Sundance Institute via AP)

    Marjorie Prime review – Jon Hamm is a haunting presence in potent sci-fi parable

    An eightysomething woman with dementia lives with a ghost-like hologram of her late husband in this affecting meditation on memory and mortality

August 2017

  • This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Jon Hamm in a scene from, “Marjorie Prime,” a film by Michael Almereyda. The film is an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (Sean Price Williams/Sundance Institute via AP)

    Marjorie Prime review – melancholy sci-fi offers poignant tale of love after life

    A holographic Jon Hamm and a standout turn from Lois Smith are two of the many pleasures packed into this soulful drama set in a future where death doesn’t need to be the end

March 2017

  • Geena Davis

    Geena Davis: ‘Thelma & Louise changed everything for me’

    It was the moment she realised how few inspiring women there are on screen. Now the actor is on a mission to fix that

June 2016

  • Geena Davis at a 2014 Women in Entertainment event.

    Geena Davis to produce documentary about Hollywood gender inequality

    Actor and campaigner says feature-length film will highlight data collected by her gender and media institute, along with testimonials from women in the industry

May 2016

  • Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis attend Kering Talks Women In Motion At The 69th Cannes Film Festival

    Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis: Hollywood hasn't had an epiphany since Thelma & Louise

    The pair, reunited in Cannes for the film’s 25th anniversary, expressed regret that the film industry hasn’t evolved since their trailblazing feminist picture

April 2016

  • geena davis

    Geena Davis on dearth of female characters: 'Is this not the 21st century?'

    The Oscar winner, who heads an organization on gender in media, discussed with Emma Watson about lack of opportunity for female actors in Hollywood

February 2016

  • Geena Davis<br>Actress Geena Davis attends the 2016 Writers Guild Awards Press Room held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel on Saturday, Feb.13, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

    Geena Davis: ‘The more TV a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life’

    The Oscar winner has spent more than two decades campaigning for gender equality in the entertainment industry. Geena Davis talks about why so little has changed on screen since Thelma & Louise and why this matters in the real world

October 2015

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Women are everywhere so why are we invisible on film?

    Eva Wiseman
    There are three male characters for every female one and women’s beauty is the story. Quotas are the way forward
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